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BUNDLE RACK FOR RAILWAY CARS.

N0. 558,690. Patented Mar. 1, 1887.

HT Q \x/l-r H555 E5 DANIEL S. PAGE, OF MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ALBERT N. PAGE, OF SAME PLACE.

BUND LE -RACK FOR RAILWAY-CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 358,690, dated March 1,1887.

Application filed December 23, 1886. Serial No. 222.376.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL S. PAGE, of Maiden, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bundle-Racks for Railway-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts,

LO Figure 1 represents a bundlerack embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail plan View of a portion of said rack. Fig. 3 is a detail vertical section of the same. Fig. 4 is an enlargedview of one of'the clamps for securing the cords together at their intersections in blank.

A A represent the end brackets, and B, O, and D horizontal bars constituting the frame, and E E plates by means of which the rack is secured to the wall of a railway-car, all constructed substantially as usual.

The floor or bottom H and back I have usually been constructed of a net-work of plain wire or cord made of some animal or vegetable fiber. In my improvement the said bottomand back are constructed of braided metallic cord, the strands of which are preferably of fine brass wire braided, so as to form a metallic cord of considerable 3o thickness, as shown in the drawings. The use of braided cord adds largely to the appearence of the rack and produces a net-work for the bottom and back of great strength, elasticity, and pliability, and all the good qualities in- 5 herent in a single wire-netting and a netting of animal or vegetable fabric are combined and retained. At the intersection of the cords clamps K (not new in this invention) are applied, whose four projections, K, are

0 doubled over upon the cords, as shown.

In order to protect the bar D from the ac- (No model.)

cumnlation of dirt and to facilitate its cleaning and polishing, the braided wire cord, instead of passing over the bar D, is stretched from and passed around an internal snpple- 5 mental bar, L, secured at its ends to the end brackets, A, and supported at intervals by suitable brackets, N, preferably perforated to receive said rod L, and projecting from the bar D. Theseintermediatebrackets,N,serve to stiffen and strengthen the bar L and prevent it from springing or being drawn out of shape by the cord.

The rack as above constructed is highly ornamental in appearence and is easily kept clean and in repair. It may be used not only in railway-cars, but in steamboats and other conveyances.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a bundle-rack for railway-cars and other conveyances, the combination, with the frame, of a network, H I, constructed substantiallyoit'intersecting cords of braided metallic wire, for the purpose set forth.

2. In a bundle-rack for railwaycars and other conveyances, the combination, with the frame, of a net-work, H I, constructed sub stantially of intersecting cords of braided 7o brass wire, for the purpose described.

3. The combination, with the frame, consisting of the brackets A and rods 13 C D, of the braided floor and back H I, supplemental rod L, and supporting-brackcts N, secured to said rod D, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

DANIEL S. PAGE.

\Vi tn esses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, J. H. HARINETT. 

